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THE HOME LIFE OF THE PILGRIMSMrs. Brewster— Priscilla, dear, please give Auntie Brewster the gin. I— er— promised to take some to the church social tonight.... And please, dear, don't drink straight vermouth while I'm gone— remember what happened last time! |
Wherein May Be Found
A Curiously Irreverent Treatment of
AMERICAN HISTORICAL EVENTS.
Imagining Them As They Would Be Narrated
By America's Most Characteristic
Contemporary Authors
Together With Divers Delightful Droll
Drawings Penciled By HERB ROTH
The Whole Forming An Amusing and
Satirical Picture of AMERICAN LETTERS
Of Today
Published in these United States by
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
New York MCMXXI
Copyright, 1921,
By George H. Doran Company
Printed in the United States of America
To
GILBERT HOLLAND STEWART, Jr.
Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in the history of these United States. Such omissions I have in this brief volume endeavored to supply. And as American history can possibly best be written by Americans and as we have among us no H. G. Wells, I have imagined an American history as written conjointly by a group of our most characteristic literary figures.
Apologies are due the various authors whose style and, more particularly, whose Weltanschauung I have here attempted to reproduce; thanks are due The Bookman for permission to reprint such of these chapters as appeared in that publication. I give both freely.
D. O. S.